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Cambridge University are attempting to revise their stuffy, elitist image – by promoting their ancient colleges as shooting locations perfect for shows like Doctor Who. The Univerity – home to the troubled Shada production in 1979 which was never completed due to BBC strikes – have been encouraging students to formulate plots for soap operas…

Welsh filmmaking continues to thrive, basking in the reflected light of Doctor Who – and the man behind a new production believes its time to call the south-east corner of the country Valleywood. Hollywood stars Tim Roth and Kelly McDonald began shooting a family-friendly feature film in South Wales last week, and are joined in…

The rumourmill has gone into overdirve this morning with rumours – not for the first time – of a return to Doctor Who for Catherine Tate and Bernard Cribbins! One newspaper – that we don’t link to for a myriad of moral reasons – has quoted a BBC insider as saying: “Fans will be delighted…

Is the Master back too? That’s certainly the suggestion, and with John Simm already scheduled to spend time in Wales for the shooting of a new film adaptation of David Almond’s Whitbread Children’s Award-winning Skellig there’s no reason why the Life on Mars star shouldn’t reprise his role. We last saw the Master shot, and…

A further run of novelizations of The Sarah Jane Adventures looks set to kick off in November, with Penguin Books continuing their adaptations. Their book versions of the first run became available in October last year, coinciding with the series’ broadcast. That ploy is enacted once more this year, with the first two adventures comprising…

Released on October 9th, The Forever Trap is the second audio-only original Doctor Who adventure from BBC Audiobooks. The follow-up to Peter Anghilides’ Pest Control (which was read by David Tennant), The Forever Trap is written this time by Dan Abnett (Abnett has previously written a Torchwood spin-off novel, Border Princes), and read by Catherine…

A rarity in the Torchwood sub-universe, Lost Souls is a specially-commissioned audio drama starring John Barrowman, Eve Myles, the lovely Freema Agyeman as Martha and and Gareth David-Lloyd as Ianto. The adventure begins when Torchwood investigate events at the real-life CERN particle accelerator project near Geneva. Will they discover the secret of the glowing man,…